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May 4, 2009

G26: Red Sox 6, Yankees 4

The Red Sox constructed a picket fence against Hughes (4-7-4-4-2, 94) and Jason Bay added a two-run dong off the left field foul pole against Alfredo Aceves (4.1-4-2-2-7, 70) in the seventh. Jonathan Papelbon recorded five outs for the save. (The game was delayed more than two hours and did not start until 9:23.)

Hughes walked Dustin Pedroia in the first and David Ortiz hit the first of two doubles to right field; Pedroia scored on a passed ball. Mike Lowell led off the second with a first-pitch homer to left, his sixth of the year. In the third, Lowell's single brought home J.D. Drew. In the fourth, Ortiz's second double scored Jacoby Ellsbury, who had hit a ground rule double to left.

Lester (7-6-3-2-10, 111) cruised through four innings, having struck out the side for the first time in his career in the first. He fanned two in the second and one each in the third and fourth. His 10 Ks matched a career high. In the fifth, he allowed back-to-back home runs -- on consecutive pitches -- to Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira. That cut Boston's lead to 4-3. Teixeira homered against off Ramon Ramirez, ending Ram's scoreless streak at 14.1 innings.

The Yankees loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth against Bot, but -- what do you know? -- Robbie Cano struck out to end the game.

The Blue Jays lost to Cleveland 9-7 in 12, so Boston is only 1 GB. The Yankees stayed 3.5 GB.

I can't wait to get there. ... [I]t seems like it's going to be another hitting park, from what I see. I'm not mad about that.

Dustin Pedroia:

I heard it's like a resort.

Julio Lugo:

I didn't like the old one very much. I didn't see the ball there very well.

That joke just writes itself, doesn't it?

Lester makes his sixth start of the year. For Hughes, it's his second start. Last Tuesday, he went 6-2-0-2-6 against the Tigers. It's also his second appearance against the Red Sox. In the first one (April 13, 2008), he was pounded for six hits and seven runs in two innings.

Reliever Damaso Marte, who had not pitched since the Boston series, was put on the 15-day disabled list with tendinitis and weakness in his pitching arm. Anthony Claggett -- who made his major league debut by allowing eight runs in 1.2 innings -- is up from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (AAA). ... The Yankees have signed Casey Fossum to a minor league contract.

Jere, haha. I've been hearing about those seats for months now. Yanks fans complaining big time. I lie that they put TVs on the wall so you can watch the play you cant see. Good thinking! So ridiculous...

I'm actually down by the left field foul pole, where Youk is going to wrap one if they play tonight. I have tix for tomorrow too, which they'll definitely get in.Looks bad though, I don't think they'll play tonight.

Redsock/L-girl- don't know whether you get all 4 Rogers Sports Channels (with Cogeco here, they seem to come automatically with the digital box), but all last week they showed the NESN feed for Sox games on Sportsnet 'East'. Don't know whether it's some kind of policy change, but one of their promos blares "over 100 Red Sox and Yankee games." Worth checking out (btw, their 'West' channel showed YES--tonight I see it has the Rays game). Since 'Ontario' has the Jays, maybe they're showing Division rivals.

How can two teams have a dynasty in a ballpark? Or is it in reference to just the Yankees having a new chapter of their "dynasty" in their new ballpark? And why would the "new chapter" start tonight and not for the first game of the stadium?

As a sidenote I've always thought that Cafardo had a thing for the Yankees. Like he works for the Globe but it really a closet Yankee fan. He seems more interested in them than Boston.

The night I was there (preseason) they weren't showing the games on those TVs for the obstructed seats. The TVs were just little versions of the scoreboard. So you could see replays and stuff, but as for seeing what was going on live, you were screwed.

"don't know whether you get all 4 Rogers Sports Channels (with Cogeco here, they seem to come automatically with the digital box), but all last week they showed the NESN feed for Sox games on Sportsnet 'East'."

i wonder if i should call rogers and talk them into changing their feed to nesn. i think i once did that and it worked -- or they realized they had two channeles showing the same station on their own and switched it.

the guy said they do not control what EI feed they get and they show the home feed on sportsnet, which is mfy. BUT last week, the sox were in tampa and sportsnet showed the AWAY feed of NESN every night, so.........

I was reading an interview in Sports Illustrated because we got a subscription from... something... Dan Patrick interviewed Eck and at one point in the interview asked what Eck thinks people would think when they think of Eck. I forget what he said, but Patrick says he thinks of the porn mustache.